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Title
Convict Department - Guard and watchman's record book, 1872
Creator
Tasmania. Convict Department
Call number
B 3
Level of description
fonds
Date

1872
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
441690
Physical Description
1 volume - 0.01 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
Scope and Content
18 Aug. 1872 - 17 Dec. 1872; The volume is a record book that provides a daily list of the men on duty with their respective positions and arrival and departure times that provides evidence of the locking of the exterior gate (primarily by W. Townley, then his successor as officer in charge, G.W.H. Axtell) at the colonial penal establishment at Port Arthur, Tasmania.
General note

Embossed on spine, "Convicts / Guard book / 1872"
Volume was bound in July 1933.
David Scott Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.
Subject
Convicts--Tasmania.
David Scott Mitchell Collection.
Prisons--Tasmania--Port Arthur.
Place
Port Arthur (Tas.)

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